With my second it was about 5 hours but in retrospect I should have recognized it as labor earlier, so it was actually about 12 hours. With this last one my water had broken the day before but I wasn't contracting, and by the time the contrax started I was only in labor for an hour, I kid you not.

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I think I was probably in labor about 27 hours, with DD1. I count from when my water broke, because the contractions intensified right after that. I had been contracting endless for three months, though, so it's really difficult to say exactly when true labor began.

My first I was in labor for 4 days... but I was on magnesium to slow my contractions. My second I was in labor for almost exactly 24 hours from the first "wake me up" painful contraction to the actual birth.

Just under 5 hours for first stage - the 1st of which was pretty minor (I was vacuuming & doing laundry), then a 30 min delay while driving to the hospital (had no idea it would go that fast! Was shocked to feel the urge to push!) 45 min for 2nd stage, so I put myself in the 5-7 hours category.

Due to a sudden BP spike and proteins, my midwives decided to do an AROM on my due date. However, I was already dilated to a 3, had been having prodromal labour for about 10 days, and DS was right on my cervix, so I do not think the AROM actually did anything my body wasn't ready to do anyway.

Hubby and I went for walk. Started having contractions while we walked, and was definitely in active labour by 10:30.

DS was born at 7:49pm after 24 minutes of pushing.

So, just over 9 hours going by the contractions. Just over 11 hours if going by when I was 'induced.'

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First I felt the first contraction around 815pm. I remember because I was watching TV with hubby and thought "wow I wonder if thats what a contraction is". She was born at 1155am so almost 16 hours.
Second I felt the first contraction at around 530 am, she was born at 651am. So little less than an hour and a half.

Just under 18 hours. I woke, as I always did, to pee, I think around 2am, and had some minor bloodly show, and then realized I was getting crampy (thought I had to poo ) and couldn't sleep for a while, then slept, then just easy labor all morning (showered, went for a couple short walks, watched TV which was only okay, hung out, snacked, realxed), more active in the afternoon (bath, walking, lots of sitting on the toilet b/c it felt comfy ), went to the hospital around 4, cozed up and just tried to relax and breath, sort of in a trance for a while, baby after less than an hour of pushing, by about 7:45pm.

I voted 24-36 with my first. Real ctxs were intense enough to stop talking through them sometime after midnight on Sunday and he was born about 36 hours later by c/s ("failure to wait" as I had finally started pushing just before the c/s, but they didn't do anything about it ).

With my 2nd, he had his hand by his head and that slowed things down even more. I had ctxs 5min apart on Thursday evening by 7pm-ish. Labored all the way from then through Saturday night where things got serious and he was born at 12:48am Sunday.

With my 3rd, early labor started on Sunday, intensified on Wednesday night (my counting point) and he was born just shy of 24 hours after that.

Dd1 - 3 hours
Dd2 - 32 minutes from when intense contractions hit
Ds1 - 1 hour 40 minutes (slow to start due to mechanical issues related to polyhydramnios)
Ds2 - uh, there was no 'labor.' It's really hard to describe because the moment I *knew* something was *really* going on I was only a minute away from birth. I was 6 cm, 80% effaced with a swollen bleeding cervix just a few minutes before his birth. I was NOT in labor before that point. I was still on the phone with my mom relaying all the details to her (bleeding cervix). I felt fine, but I was becoming impatient. I just wanted labor to start. And boy did it. I only had onesies and twosies (contractions) that were mild before that. I never had more than five at a time. Every time I felt a few contractions I would think "maybe this is it" only to be disappointed because they never amounted to anything. No active labor pattern. I was never 'in' labor. It was very similar with dd2.

I have extremely fast labors/births, but I was between 5-7/8 cm when I started labor with all of them. With my last baby I went from 6 cm and 80% effaced with a very swollen (and bleeding) cervix to birth in less than a minute--the five contractions that immediately preceded his birth.

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I would always labor for days/weeks before really kicking into intense labor. Contracts would be as close at 2 mins apart lasting 90 seconds... for hours. But, it wasn't 'gonna have a baby' labor. 'Gonna have a baby labor' stats were like this:
1. 18.5 hours (posterior never flipped)
2. 4.5 hours
3. 90 mins
4. 100 mins.

I was induced at about 9:30 am with pitocin. AROM by the OB at around 10:30. Had an epidural at around 11:00 am. He arrived vaginally at 10:06 pm. Just a little bit over 12 hours, with 1:15 minutes of pushing.

I think it helped that I was 3cm went I went in, with his head at -1. Just didn't go into labor.

both my labours were 12 hours. they say that the second is usually shorter but I couldn't sit still with my first I needed to walk and with my second I wanted to lay in bed. I am sure the walking helped keep things moving and the laying down slowed things.

~6 hours that I recognized as labor (started about noon), but looking back I felt weird from the time I woke up, so I was probably having contractions I couldn't feel all morning, so maybe ~11 hours if you count that

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